Why did Trump win?

The election of Donald Trump has got some thinking and some talking and some demonstrating in the streets.

As someone on Twitter pointed out, “if you’re rioting to protest against a democratic election, maybe your behavior is why Trump won in the first place.”

You have many opinions why he won.

Ken says, “For years the progressive left has simply told the rest of us that we are wrong without actually listening to us. Trump simply tapped into that alienation.”

Dave says the Trump win just shows what money can buy, but others point out Trump spent a lot less than Clinton.

Many Democrats did not get out to vote. John says it’s just another example of how your vote does matter.

CJLC says on the other hand, many who had never voted before may have been energized by the idea of supporting the little guy and diminishing the professional politician.

And, Eugene doubts things will really be any better with Trump in the White House. He says people were convinced that Obama would be better, but he wasn’t. Eugene says the more things change the more they remain the same.

Comments

Is this the media doing its job? They interview so called experts before the election to learn what to expect then ask the same experts after the election to learn what they think is in our future once again. Cmon Man.

Just about all of the media has to hang their heads in shame. They are there to report the news not to push their own agenda. Any media personal that was crying or telling everyone on air that they are afraid are pushing their own agenda and should not be in that position. This election show the bias in the media in the US and here in Canada. I do not see any of them that are not in this mess with both feet. It clearly shows here in Alberta. The media cannot say anything bad about the NDP, the city council, but the Wild Rose, or Jason Kenny cannot get any comments that are against them. We allow all the media to spoon feed us this garbage.

He got into office primarily for the same reasons that the NDP did. it seems that is the price that has to be paid for dealing with despicable political preformance, however, I hope the people of the United States do not have to put up with the disappointments we have had to face as a result!

Typical windbag Bob, true to form and completely out of touch. . Almost every day for the last month we got to listen to his pontificating about the future president clinton. On the upside I guess we can thank him for the beautiful weather we’re experiencing. Instead of the typical blowing wind he’s been sucking it for the last two days and created a low pressure zone that has brought us some lovely warmth.

President elect Trump is nothing to be celebrated. He ran on a platform of extreme racism, misogyny and bigotry. As if that is not horrifying enough, there are people who decided to overlook this and voted for him. His idea of negotiating with other nations is to poke them in the chest and tell them off. A leader of a nation needs to be able to use diplomacy and I am not even sure that Trump can spell that. He picked as his running mate a man that tried to force burials and cremations for miscarriages at any stage and is the reason a woman went to jail for 20 years for failure to produce a live birth.
Meanwhile, in Alberta, the supporters of a particular leader were aggressively going after the female candidates and calling one of the baby killer because she dared to support bodily autonomy and women’s health. The leadership of the PCAA and the candidate refuse to acknowledge that there is a problem.
The candidate I speak of has voted against affordable housing, childcare, equality, family planning, funding for family violence prevention and other common sense things. There are Albertans that are willing to throw these people under the bus to support this platform.